Iran is becoming more aggressive just as Barack Obama makes deep cuts in our defense budget. Two attacks directed at Israel embassy personnel this week in India and Georgia (Eastern Europe), as well as three bombings in Thailand yesterday. Also on Tuesday, Iran sent small attack boats to within 2 miles of the Abraham Lincoln carrier battle group as it steamed through the Strait of Hormuz. A US Navy helicopter dropped flares near the attack boats as a warning for them to withdraw. Today, Iran announces that it is just two steps away from being completely self-sufficient in producing nuclear fuel. Another indication that the Tehran government has no intentions of backing away from its nuclear ambitions. Iran also announced that it will consider suspending oil sales to six European nations which are participating in economic sanctions. This is helping to drive up oil prices today to over $101 a barrel.
Meanwhile, Barack Hussein Obama is moving to slash defense spending with the single largest reduction since the end of World War Two. The Obama administration is already involved in talks with the Taliban seeking a policy of appeasement in order to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan. Obama has already pulled the last US troops out of Iraq, which has seen a major spike in violence since.
If Iran were not enough of a problem, Syria and Egypt may soon be joining the watch list. Syria has been engaged in a civil war now for nearly a year as rebels clash with government forces. In Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has won a significant percentage in their Parliament, along with other fundamentalist Islamic political parties. Egypt has detained some 19 Americans, forcing them to hide in the US embassy, accusing them of being involved in causing a protest movement. Bahrain has also expelled 3 foreigners, including one American, for being involved in pro-democracy movements there.
Yes, thanks to Barack Obama, America is on the retreat throughout the Middle East and the World in general. Nations like Iran now feel that they have a free hand to cause trouble. Recent attacks against Israel by Iran at Israeli embassies in Georgia and India, as well as against targets in Thailand, show that Iran is becoming much more aggressive. They are even challenging our naval forces in the Strait of Hormuz, and threatening to stop oil sales to the West. The price of oil is climbing again, with $4 a gallon gasoline coming soon if not $5 a gallon. Obama does not care as he slashes defense spending in his new 2013 budget. Obama would rather buy condoms for school children to use than protect America′s borders or citizens.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:24 am
Most incompetent president in history will prolly end up starting WWIII. Liberals have a lot of blood on their hands so why should he be any different.
February 15th, 2012 at 8:39 am
Most incompetent president in history will prolly end up starting WWIII. Liberals have a lot of blood on their hands so why should he be any different.
Amen to that.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:51 am
Just the opposite is true. Obama made major committment to AFghanistan, has pursued drone strikes, and under his admin. a number of top Al Queda leaders have been killed, including, of course, Osama hisself. I do not have any qualms at all about what America’s response might be under Obama to any threat against our national security. If you think for one moment that we don’t know what Iran is doing you are wrong.
I wish your dad had used a condom, Andrew.
February 15th, 2012 at 11:52 am
Ghastly Glom
Always with a classy coda.
February 15th, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Theres many ulterior motives our dickhead n chief could have for pressing or not pressing Iran.
He has no love for Israel
An oil embargo would push his green sht further to the front burner.
Whatever dirty deeds Iran may take he’ll blame Bush.
An excuse to give Egypt more funding or cut aid to Israel because as opposed to defending themselves he’ll blame them for starting WW3.
I guarantee you Obama love for Israel to make the first move so he can blame whatever collateral results on them.
Tell Israel to either give away some more of their land clusterfck called “Palestnians” or go back to 1960s borders.
Also an ideal excuse to raise taxes.
Klo, Osama was only one man. Theres still millions of radicals that could replace him easily enough. Its not rocket science to be Bin Laden. The ideology and threat is still dangerous and becomes larger still with every passing day.
The only guaranteed thing we can expect if either Israel or the US takes action against Iran is the domino effect of neigboring Arab states, bringing Russia and China into the picture.
And this ass hole wants to cut our military by 50% ?
Guess what the collateral damage was when Clinton started streamlining the Military.
We didnt know for Clintons last four years that Al Queda was planning 911 and that the hijackers were here in America the whole four years, then the Cole,then 2 American Embassies in Africa. And lets not forget the first strike on the towers and the limp wrist response from Clinton.
Iran needs the sht knocked out of them, and soon.
Otherwise the Middle Eastern map will look nothing like it does today
February 15th, 2012 at 1:08 pm
Yep, then I heard later in the morning that Obama wants to cut our nuclear deterrence by 80%, from 1500 warheads down to just 300.
Obama is the Sissy President. He will doom us all to being enslaved by Socialism.
February 15th, 2012 at 1:35 pm
I have a funny feeling we’ve still got way more nukes than we’re being told.
The numbers are just propaganda pacifiers for the public,thats what I think.
Heh, and I pray to God I’m right too.
And why the fck are we telling anyone how many we either do or dont have ?
I watched Doomsday Preppers last night.
Why do all these people look like beached whales ?
February 15th, 2012 at 1:41 pm
“I wish your dad had used a condom, Andrew.”
Yo seesta is yo momma
February 15th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
“Obama is the Sissy President”
LOL how true. There is an old word (milktoast) that has fallen out of favor in the last decades as it’s become cool in our culture to feminize men. Milktoast is a great word for our president.
February 15th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
See here’s the thing. None of us know what’s really going on with Iran because it’s likely none of us actually attend the president’s security briefings. Any comments on what we should / shouldn’t do are naive. What is certainly true is that a the Iranian government is a dangerous mess and it’s likely that something is going to blow there in the coming weeks / months / years. If and when it does I hope the US can leave politics out of it.
And FYI folks, the dems are sissies argument won’t float with this president. He killed Bin Ladin and knocked out more of the Taliban and Al Quaeda than since the start of the war. And by most voters his handling of recent events in the Middle East will be viewed as preventing another Iraq, which no matter how most folks on this board feel was a VERY unpopular war with American voters.
Republicans stand a chance running on the economy, but this is NOT a strong issue for them this year.
February 15th, 2012 at 2:42 pm
” another Iraq, which no matter how most folks on this board feel was a VERY unpopular war with American voters.”
Really ? Thats news to me because almost every dem and every rep voted to go in, nevermind the fact that Bush was re-elected in the middle of that war.
Bush even had democratic support until the election rolled around and then, all of a sudden, it was the bad war.
The only seriously admirable thing Barry has done on national security was to extend and enhance Bushs drone program.
As we speak, Iraq is becoming what it was 6 years ago including the Iranians sending in the Kud, which were killing our troops directly abd indirectly.
Get me and Obama in a debate on the middle east and I’d slaughter him.
Intervention in the middle east right now is of far greater concern than it ever has been.
And wants to starve the military.
Hes an idiot
February 15th, 2012 at 2:51 pm
“comments on what we should / shouldn’t do are naive. ”
No they’re not, even if they’re hypothetical theres enough data to discuss what we should/could do if a country sworn to eliminate Israel makes good on its word.
Aside from the nuke factor or take them off the table we “right now” are within every right to smack the sht out of them just for everything they’ve done to America and its troops for the last 10 years alone.
Funding Syria and Hamas doesnt make it any better for them either
February 15th, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Congress voted on what we now know to be incorrect information. The war became less popular than it had been when this became known.
February 15th, 2012 at 3:42 pm
Thats beside the point.
We still had thousands(literally) of legit reasons to go in.
Instead, liberal candidates used it as an opportunity to discredit Bush.
Saddam confessed to the FBI he made it appear as if he did in fact have WMD to ward off enemies.
Do you seriously think Iran is bluffing the way Saddam did by kicking out IAEA ?
February 16th, 2012 at 5:03 am
Oh dang, Micky! I forgot to watch this week’s episode of “Doomsday Preppers”!!
As for the beached whale look, I suppose they want to have an edge on surviving. Just look at the TV show, “Survivor”. Its typical for contestants to drop 30-40 pounds during the 39-day adventure.
February 16th, 2012 at 5:10 am
TA,
First off, this business about ‘Obama killing Bin Laden’ is just such nonsense. The US Navy Seals killed Bin Laden. The CIA found Bin Laden so the Navy Seals could kill him. All Obama had to do was say, “Yes, go ahead”, and the dummy still had to sleep on it and did not decide for some 18 hours. Sorry, but the decision was a no-brainer. Any fool could have said, “Yes, go ahead.”
As for all those drone strikes, who are we really killing? Do we really know? Is it worth risking tipping Pakistan over the edge so it rebels and goes radical Islam on us?
February 16th, 2012 at 6:50 am
Agree about the drone strikes – it’s low risk for us but terrible for the Pakistanis, most of whom have zero to do with this mess. I was on a plane recently with a young Pakistani who now lives and works in DC – he was returning to the US from his first visit home in several years and we talked about relations between the two countries. He believes that in general, people there are, or at least were, 100% behind US efforts to oust the terrorists and actually pissed at their own government for not having done it sooner. But after a few years of stuff blowing up all around them they are over it, and who can blame them.
We don’t hear a lot in this country about “collateral damage.” Our news is tempered to suit our sensibilities – our own horror at what is happening in some ways only prolongs the horror. It’s different in the rest of the world. When a bomb accidentally lands in a wedding reception, they see the results.
As to Obama taking out Bin Laden, he was CIC at the time, he gets a share of the credit. Deal with it.
February 16th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
“As to Obama taking out Bin Laden, he was CIC at the time, he gets a share of the credit.”
Bush blazed the trail that ended with obama grabbing the baton in the last lap.
I’ll give him credit for the assassination, but not for the years of intel gathering that lead us to him.
When Barry starts killing these idiots by the thousands, like Bush did. That is the day I’ll give him credit enough.
Osamas death was only psychological propaganda.
Osama is to Al Queda what Ahmadinejad is to Irans mullahs and KUD forces.
Puppets in a game that are way over their heads.
We should drop one of our icbms in some unpopulated remote region (thats about 90% of their land) to send a message that we can clean your clock in half an our, jail your mullahs, and take your oil if we wanted to.
I seriously doubt China and Russia want to risk Armageddon in the middle of the best economic success they’ve had ever.
Why would they supply a regime thats destined to fail anyday ?
February 17th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
By the way, if you are going to insult the president by calling him “milk toast” please change it to milquetoast.
It is from a cartoon character called Caspar Milquetoast. It has nothing to do with either milk or toast.